If you've ever owned a cat, you know that the animator has got the cat moves down pat!
Cats and poets go together. My favorite cat poems are the ones that capture a cat neatly in words.
This one, by Kay Ryan, is new to me, but I knew upon first reading that it is a keeper:
A Cat/A FutureMarge Piercy has caught the essence of the cat/human relationship in "The Cat's Song,"
A cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she's
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude:
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.
Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.Here's another by the famous Anonymous:
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says
the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing
milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.
Read the rest here.
Quick! quick!A haiku by Issa, written in 1824, shows us how deeply we humans love our cats:
The cat's been sick.
Where? where?
Under the chair.
Hasten! hasten!
Fetch the basin.
Alack! alack!
It is too late,
The carpet's in
An awful state.
No! no!
It's all in vain,
For she has licked it
Up again.
plum blossoms--If you're on the prowl for more poetry, Liz in Ink is hosting the Poetry Friday Round-Up.
dried sardines scattered
on the cat's grave
translated by David G. Lanoue
6 comments:
This post is the cat's meow!
Love the video!
All great poems! The Haiku touched my heart and the video was a nice antidote to the sadness the Haiku inspired.
Love the Simon video! I seem to remember the famous Anonymous poem a bit differently and a lot cruder. It included the lines: Run, run get the gun. Oh, hell, he's all done. I learned it as a wee lass from my paternal grandmother, a very genteel lady, indeed. I won't sully this lovely post with any more direct quotes from Nanny's version. You should have heard her take on Little Boy Blue.
Oh please, pretty please. C'mon, you know you wanna share.
That's a great video! He nailed CAT! Excellent selection of poems, too, Diane.
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